NY Times hires Rest of World’s Lee
The New York Times has hired Rest of World staffer Joanne Lee as an art director, visuals. She will serve as the lead designer on the social visuals team, producing social-first visual storytelling, innovating on design systems across a range of on- and off-platform surfaces and mentoring colleagues across the newsroom on tools, production and […]
What’s caused Rest of World’s downfall
Max Tani of Semafor writes about the decline of Rest of World, an international business news website put into limbo by financial backer Stephanie Schmidt. Tani writes, “The outlet — initially organized as a nonprofit and funded at first largely by Schmidt, rather than advertising or subscriptions — hired dozens of journalists and built out a […]
Rest of World to cease publication as standalone in 2027
Rest of World founder Sophie Schmidt sent out the following to organization donors: Hello donors, We wanted to reach out and share an update about Rest of World’s future. After more than six years of award-winning reporting, our leadership team has begun the search for a new institutional home for the Rest of World brand and catalogue: […]
What Rest of World learned from a registration wall
Michael Donohoe, chief product officer at Rest of World, writes about what the international business news site learned after implementing a registration wall. Donohoe writes, “Be careful about looking at the registration count in isolation. “Traffic changes. The share of readers reaching the meter changes. As you adjust the threshold, you change how many people […]
Rest of World exec editor hired by The Atlantic
Michael Zelenko is joining The Atlantic as a senior editor. He has spent more than a decade directing coverage of the biggest stories in technology. He comes from Rest of World, where he was an executive editor. He was previously the executive editor at Medium’s OneZero and a senior features editor at The Verge. Zelenko […]
Rest of World seeks an editor in chief
Rest of World was founded in an era of expansive digital globalism. Outside the West, tech adoption was lightning-fast, ubiquitous and held the promise of a unified – if noisy – future. Across thousands of stories, we charted the complexity of that process: triumphant underdogs, systemic corporate harms and myriad innovation from unlikely places. It […]
Rest of World editor Kaphle stepping down
Rest of World editor in chief Anup Kaphle sent out the following: When Sophie Schmidt offered me the opportunity to join Rest of World six years ago, I knew we were attempting something genuinely difficult: building a publication that could tell the story of technology’s impact on the majority of the world — the places […]
Rest of World investigations editor Saleh departs
Maryam Saleh, the first investigations editor at Rest of World, has left the organization after a year. Saleh led ambitious, newsroom-wide investigative projects and helped elevate daily coverage. Saleh was formerly a senior editor at The Intercept, where she edited politics, features, and investigations on a range of topics ranging from Israel’s war in Gaza, to […]
Rest of World hires Saft as publisher
Rest of World has hired Gordon Saft as its publisher. An announcement on its website states, “Gordon brings a wealth of experience across media, technology and innovation. He built partnerships and products with news organizations across the world at Google News, launching custom news, subscription, and audio products. At Meta’s Reality Labs, he led first […]
Rest of World seeks a publisher
Rest of World is a nonprofit publication rewriting the map of global tech journalism, telling stories of innovation, adaptation and rising power beyond the Western bubble. In our first five years, our award-winning newsroom has reported from more than 100 countries, covering the long tail of tech everywhere: AI, e-commerce, Big Tech, autonomous cars, semiconductors, creator […]
